The Labouchere system is a betting system to beat blackjack. The system requires adjusting your bet to the result of the previous hand. You must raise your bet after a loss and decrease after a win. It may seem to you that it is very like the Martingale system, but the Labouchere is more complicated system.

First of all, you should choose a sequence of numbers. Let’s take, for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. You must bet a sum of the first and last numbers (in our example, 1+6 = 7). If you win, you remove 1 and 7 and your next bet is 2+5 = 7. If your hand (1+6) loses, you must add this bet to the end of the sequence as follows: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and your next bet will be 8 (1+7). Once you stroke out all the numbers in your sequence, the series ends.

Sequence = 1 2 3 4 5 6

7 win 7 win 7 lose 10

Sequence = 3 4 7

Let’s examine the sequence: 1-2-2-3-2:

Sequence

Bet

Result

NetGain

1-2-2-3-2

3

lost

-3

1-2-2-3-2-3

4

lost

-7

1-2-2-3-2-3-4

5

lost

-12

1-2-2-3-2-3-4-5

6

won

-6

2-2-3-2-3-4

6

lost

-12

2-3-2-3-4-6

8

won

-4

3-2-3-4

7

lost

-11

3-2-3-4-7

10

won

-1

2-3-4

6

won

+5

The result is slow but because you keep increasing your bets you will in the end be ahead, when the series ends.A series may be long and you can lose a lot before you will get a profit.The Labouchere system needs considerable concentration to follow it and may cause you to distract from the basic strategy.